Albina Sorguč, Author at Detektor

An agreement between security agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina on mutual assistance and operational collaboration in countering terrorism entered into force on April 22 and will improve the exchange of data and coordination of activities, BIRN was told.

A request to retry Osman Abdulaziz Kekic, who was sentenced to three years in prison for joining a foreign paramilitary formation in Syria, was filed to the Bosnian state court.

Despite strong evidence that emerged in their superiors’ trials, officers who led brigades of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps as it targeted Sarajevo with shells and sniper fire have never been indicted.

The Bosnian Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Zarko Vukovic, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier who was sentenced to seven years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in Foca in 1992. Bosnia’s Constitutional Court said that it has rejected Zarko Vukovic’s appeal against his conviction, describing as unfounded his claim that his right […]

A court confirmed ex-fighter Radomir Susnjar’s 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in a house that he helped to set on fire in Visegrad in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has upheld the verdict convicting Radomir Susnjar of involvement in wartime crimes in the Visegrad area in June 1992, including the murder of 26 civilians – one of them a two-day-old baby – who were locked inside a house that was then burned.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by former Croatian Defence Council military policeman Mate Baotic against the verdict convicting him of war crimes in Orasje in 1992. The Constitutional Court in Sarajevo has rejected as unfounded Mate Baotic’s appeal against the verdict from 2017 sentencing him to 13 years in prison for war […]

Zijad Hamzic, who was acquitted of wartime crimes against Serbs in the Kladanj area, is suing the state for 7,860 euros in compensation because he was put under house arrest and barred from travelling.

Milomir Savcic, the head of the organisation that represents Bosnian Serb military veterans, pleaded not guilty to assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995. Milomir Savcic, the president of the Veterans’ Organisation of Republika Srpska, pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on Monday to assisting the commission of genocide in July 1995.

The prosecution called for maximum sentences to be imposed on four former Bosnian Serb soldiers accused of the murders of 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the village of Oborci in central Bosnia in 1995. The Bosnian prosecution on Wednesday called on the state court to convict ex-soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic, Sasa Boskic and Milorad Glamocak of the murders of 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in Oborci, near the town of Donji Vakuf, on September 13, 1995.

A commemoration was held in Sarajevo to mark the anniversary of the shelling of the Markale marketplace in February 1994, when 68 people were killed and 142 wounded.

Albina Sorguč

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Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Conviction for Mass Killing Upheld

Bosnian Croat’s Sentence for Rape, Prisoner Abuse Upheld

Ex-Fighter Sues Bosnia After War Crimes Acquittal

Bosnian Serb Veterans’ Leader Denies Assisting Srebrenica Genocide

Jail Urged for Bosnian Serb Soldiers Accused of Killing Civilians

Bosnia Commemorates Victims of Sarajevo Market Massacre

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